Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-26
A DOOMED INSTITUTION.

LIE Bon Boire is the name OF q news
paper published in Chicago "in the
interest of liquor Dealers" The "in.
terests of the liquor.dealers' are worth
noticing. Some of them are stated In
the initial number Of lie Bon Boire In
connection with q mention of the Chi
cago Liquor Dealers Protective Asso-
citation, which lie described as an or
g~anization formed to ''protect and up.
hold the rights and interests Of the
trade ana to defend members against
the unjust prosecutions Of fanaticism
and temperance laws" 1t il proposed
that this shall be done by "a lawful
but decided opposition TO all attempts
at enforcing, and especially at malici-
ously prev 'nting all-so called temper
ance laws; and by using all honorable
means to h~ave..in future only such men
elected to public offices IS are favora.
BILE to the aims Of this association"
Lawful but decided opposition"
sounds well, but no n needs to be
told what IL means. An illustration
OF decided opposition" is afforded in
the open saloon on Sunday when the
law says it shall be closed, and the
lawful opposition" comes in later
when the saloon keeper resi- .ts by le-
gal forms the penalty for the violation
Of a law Of the existence purpose of
which be was fully advised. The
''lawful" e is merely an incident
of the general attitude of Opposition to
the enforcement of the law, which the
saloon employees only regard when fore.
ed to do so. AT all other times the oppo-
sition Is that decided" character
which defies. and when it dares, as IL
has dared 10 Minneapolis, protected
by vicious men faithiess TO official
trusts, tramples down every restrc
ton laid by an elevated public senti-
ment upon the evil of intemperance.
The exercise of its powerful political
influences IL another honorable
means" which the saloon makes con.
slant use of 10 accomplish its object.
To secure Tor itself immunity from
punishment for violation of the law
1t lsbors for the election Of men who
will ignore the lawlessness of the sa-
loon. The honorable" character of
this whole proceeding is apparent at a
glance. Nobody Is deceived by such
fiimsy pretenses. The association
which makes them has been In exis-
tence in Chicago for seven years. II
il not unfair to ,,ascribe 1t to the long
reign of Harrisonism ia that city; the
growth Of the doodle gang" now
being overtaken by party justice and
the prevalence Of every species of
crime for which Chicago has become
notorious till the whole eliminated
finally In the Haymarket riot of a year
ago. All these things were planned
In saloons and the blunted moral
sense which even made them seem
right to some people is a result OF the
influence of the saloon. This Is the
institution which talks about resisting
the enforcement Of law aud about pro-
teoting its interests by honorable pc.
litical methods" 1t knows nothing
about honor. The saloon il the sDrout'
ing bed Of crime. IL has become tho
roughly identified with crime In every
form and the advanced and elevated
sentiment Of the time is determined
10 restrict aud suppress ii. In Its OPP
position to the enforcement oflaw and
in Its disobedience. a. well as In its at.
tempts TO control the politics of the
country, the saloon has been its own
worst enemy. 1t has arrayed against
itself q force which 1t cannot success
fully oppose much ~longer.-Minneapo-
lis Journal.